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by meshko 4067 days ago
Sigh. It's about as profound as writing an article on whether Linux vs Windows -- which one is a better OS? I skimmed the article for some reason and it is full of questionable statements. One thing that jumped out at me is the part about using multiple cores to run a query. We are in 2015 ladies and gentlemen. A RDBMS must be able to parallelize queries. Argument about never being CPU bound is laughable. I am, as we speak, running a performance test on a 36 core box and I already know the result: I NEED MORE CORES. Analytics is moving into SSD world, where data processing will be CPU bound once again.